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***Wake Up To True CTAs*** GenevaLast year, in our hugely popular “Wake up to True CTAs” seminar, we introduced CTAs as an effective hedge against
 unforeseen market turbulence whilst “True CTAs” also generated their own Alpha over the long term. This complimentary feature of CTAs makes their inclusion on the overall portfolio strategy the most important Alpha Risk measure you can take.In this follow up seminar we explore how CTAs can offer protection against the serious risk of inflation that has been foreseen over the next 24 months and why your portfolio is exposed without this insurance. We’ll also see if the “True CTA” assertions are still valid and find out how they performed and protected in 2010.
John Godden, CEO of IGS AIS LLP, will be chairing a panel of expert CTA Investment Managers including Christophe Reech and Philip Catmur from Reech AIM Partners LLP, and Dr Nicholas Verwilghen from EIM in this 60 minute session.
If you are a Hedge Fund, Fund Of Fund, Pension or Family Office, you should attend this free one hour seminar;
Agenda
Date - Wednesday 9th March
8.30 Arrive – Coffee and Pastries
9.00 Session Begins
9.45 Questions and Coffee
10.30 Close
Venue – The Swissotel Metropole Geneve, Quai General Guisan 34, 1204 Geneva, Switzerland
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IGS Announces Results Of CTA StudyExecutive Summary
CTAs should not only outperform the wider financial industry during a downturn but also their own “bull market” performance as they engage to fulfil the promise of portfolio protection. This study seeks to test this assertion and finds that it holds for only a few “true CTA” strategies while the remainder exhibit risk-return profiles that are increasingly correlated to market cycles.
That CTAs offer the promise of portfolio protection in a financial downturn via outperformance relative to the rest of the industry has been demonstrated in recent research [1]. However the question has not yet been asked about the relative performance within CTAs during cycles in the financial markets – are CTAs a strategy that, in a crisis, should not only outperform the industry but also their own “bull market” performance?
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